Opinion: Elizabeth Warren's Tax Dodge

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... to the tothe is set to battle in Massachusetts on ... the scene turned Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren this week ... um ... having holiday ... on Monday Mrs Warren demanded ... by the incumbent Senator Scott Brown ... release tax returns for his entire time in public ... on his twenty years ... yesterday she the devil II a ... while ... look she's she's she's the one release her on tax and ... does ... so she she's kind of come out and she's making this case she's on a plane two ... of ... the larger of presidential debate about tax returns and and so forth but doesn't wanna ... get this income disclosure herself and I think it ... is the sort of ... the farthest illustrates her problems as a as a candidate you know she's she's the she's a liberal darling you might remember ... the New York Times magazine ran its profile for ... called heaven is a place called ElizabethWarren she sort of ... hits all the progress of a Russian it sounds but it as a matter of ... retail politics and and and and and the business of politics she's she's not break an inch he's had ... numerous missteps ... like like the warmer since we can't show it in on that point one of the biggest missteps was of course is Warren's claim that she had a Native American heritage that she's one thirty second MidAmerican ... any update on that there is the can can finally put back ... a fumble behind the mountain and it shows of all the time these stories it is common ... it isn't it should've been no a weeklong story at most maybe but it ... was on sort of a low boil for for two months and it's because ... she couldn't give a good explanation ... of why she was making this claim for so long over academic career ... added should benefit from that so ... it's it's not that it's on a major thing about her but it but it is it's a it's a telling point about her ... political character ... I Joe ... let's talk about the results though the polls show so far ... show that despite all of these finals ... ElizabethWarren is still very competitive with incumbent Senator Scott Brown ... II so it she's also that I think is the speaking ... I ... it ... a point at the Democratic National Committee weekend I convention ... unconnected her campaign and that is why she still so close and she's made so many mistakes while were were still talking about Massachusetts here this is Ted Kennedy's Senate seat he held for a half century the idea the Republicans even competitive is is pretty is pretty remarkable I think ... Scott Brown is a very canny politician ... he he knows so that the Massachusetts vernacular ... I'm you know ... he he he doesn't love ... Martha Coakley prom or she can remember ... you know ... if she should root for the Red Sox are not like that that that I think ... you know he he goes to all these all these sort of ... you plant takes in and union halls and things like that he's he's he's very compelling ... um ... ElizabethWarren just doesn't have that same quality about her ... all the stock about the Brown campaign after this tax back peddle this week ... Sen Brown spokesman came out said Mrs Warne quote ... deserves a pair of gold medals for backpedaling and hypocrisy very strong language ... and Sen Brown just just takes it to on every time that they see nobody is there a lesson here ... state for Mitt Romney in the waiting he's responding to the presence of tacks is Senator Brown doing it better ... well look I mean he he thinks he's he's he's running the the right coming campaign for him for Massachusetts he's the right kind of ... Republican for Massachusetts and that's why he's he's having ... summit's success is is that the model this can work and ... in every state now on and running for president is is is very different from ... running even for even for Senate seats I am not sure if there's a ... real symmetry there and they're in their political strife is very very briefly Joe ... Elizabeth went back to this that the upcoming Democratic National Convention ... that that gave her a big boost in de think it's a big risk for Democrats to have her on stage well look it's a it's a it's a risk for them in the sense that that she's well total at the end of the normal median Democratic voters so ... she she might say something ... like you didn't Build that that that Grandma buys for days but but pronounce ... took a while and I have deleted that Wall Street Journal editorial board member Joe rego thank you so much ... for being with us ...